• Queen Mab, in full Queen Mab, a poem in nine cantos by P. B. Shelley. - এটি একটি Philosophical Poem. - ১৮১৩ সালে প্রকাশিত Blank verse এ লেখা এই কবিতাটিকে Shelley এর first major poem হিসাবে বিবেচনা করা হয়। - It is a utopian political epic that exposes social evils such institutions as monarchy, commerce, and religion and that describes a visionary future in which humanity is liberated from all such vices. - Queen Mab, ruler of the fairies, takes the spirit of Ianthe (the name of Shelley’s first child) on a journey through time and space to reveal various human follies and errors. - Queen Mab was very popular with members of the working-class radical movement of the 1830s and ’40s.
• এই কবিতার একটি বিখ্যাত উক্তি হচ্ছে - - 'The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance'.
• P. B. Shelley (1792-1822): - তার পুরো নাম Percy Bysshe Shelley. - তিনি রোমান্টিক যুগের অন্যতম একজন কবি। - He is known as a Revolutionary Poet, Lyric Poet, Poet of Wind, Poet of Hope and Regeneration. - His passionate search for personal love and social justice was gradually channeled from overt actions into poems that rank with the greatest in the English language.
• His famous works: - Ode to the West Wind, - To a Skylark, - Prometheus Unbound (lyrical drama) - Adonais, - Ozymandias, - The Cloud, - To Night, - Song of Proserpine.